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ABOUT SAVENOW SaveNow provides offers and information based on visited URLs, search terms and context. By using this revolutionary technology, you are helping to deliver high quality software for free. SaveNow strictly protects user privacy in the following manner:
SaveNow is installed on your computer as a module that comes with free software, when you downloaded it from the Internet. At that time, you accepted a license agreement as part of the download process you completed. It is our strict policy to distribute SaveNow only to users who have accepted the license agreement. If you believe you have received SaveNow without accepting the license agreement please let us know at legal@whenu.com. There are a vast number of offers and services available to Internet users that SaveNow may display. In addition, WhenU.com negotiates exclusive offers to maximize value for users. SaveNow's goal is to show users information about these offers and services - right at the moment when they need it. For example, if you visit a search engine and typed in "long distance", you might get an offer for SmartPrice - a site that we found to be the best for comparing long distance plans. If you visit a travel site - we might show you how to save 40% on travel at Hotwire. If you visit a retail site, you might see an offer for a coupon at Overstock.com. SaveNow's information and offers are provided to users by showing a limited number of relevant coupons and ads in the form of interstitials ("pop-up ads") and other ad formats. These offers and ads are shown when users visit various sites across the Internet, based on URLs visited by the user and/or search terms typed into search engines and/or the HTML content of the page viewed by the user and/or the local country or zip code of the user. SaveNow offers are delivered independently from the site the user happens to be visiting when they see a SaveNow offer and are not endorsed or affiliated with anyone other than WhenU.com SaveNow is NOT spyware - there is no persistent communication between your desktop computer and our servers. Users have noted that the program contacts our servers every once in a while - it does so in order to retrieve content from us and store that content on your computer, to make it available to you at the right moment. There is one daily communication sent just to let us know that the software is functioning - nothing more (i.e. no collection of browsing history, etc). The desktop application checks for the presence of new browser windows every 3 seconds - which results in sustained (but very low) CPU usage. Typically, data sent to the desktop is done in very small chunks of less than 4K. Upon installation, there will be some bandwidth usage as the initial content database is loaded - this is a one-time event. Very infrequently, there might be a sustained burst of data sent to the desktop - this would only be done if we updated the desktop software itself (which we do from time to time to improve performance). Again, these are one-time events - the application does NOT use bandwidth on a sustained basis. The software takes up only slightly more RAM than your IE browser control uses (it shares RAM with it) and is designed to be non-intrusive and non-invasive. If you want to uninstall, you can do so easily through the add/remove function in your control panel. You can access your control panel by going to:
Of course we encourage you to leave it on so that you can benefit from the occasional offers that it shows you. If you need more information, or experience any technical problems, please contact us at techsupport@whenu.com. We look forward to hearing from you. |
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